Category: Digital Posters
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Creating an Online Environment for Displaying Historic Pennsylvania German Texts
Michael McGuire (Indiana University) This digital scholarship project aims to provide digital access to historical texts and other documents written in Pennsylvania German. Texts will be presented in parallel with different orthographic versions of the original in addition to English translations and notes. The layout of the project will be similar to the Flamenca Digital…
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This is Why We Fight: Student Activism at Gettysburg College
Lauren White (Gettysburg College) “This is Why We Fight” is an interactive timeline of student-led social justice movements at Gettysburg College. For each event on the timeline, there is a summary of the events and an explanation its significance, both locally and nationally. Digital Scholarship Summer Fellow Lauren White’s interest in this project was sparked…
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Your Friend and Classmate: Following the West Point Class of June 1861 Through the American Civil War
Julia Wall (Gettysburg College) June 24th, 1861, 34 young men graduated from the United States Military Academy a year early to answer the need for more officers in the United States Army. Four had already dropped out of their class before graduation to join the Confederacy, and three more resigned to join the rebelling forces.…